The first recorded payment of conscience money in Great Britain occurred on March 50, 1789. when a packet of bank notes ta the value of £360 reached the Treasury, together with an unsigned note addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this he was askod to apply the money “ to lb* use of the State in such' manner that the nation may not suffer by its having been detained from the public treasury. You are implored to do this for the sake of conscience to an honest man." Gladstone was the luckiest in this respect of all Mr Snowden’s predecessors; during the year 1859-60 lie received no less £16,488 4s 8d as conscience at —
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Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 4
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115Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 4
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